The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-05-13
NEWS ANnoTHER NOTINGs.

The Pittsburgh Commercial says the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company is about to
engage in constructing a third track between
Pittsburgh and PhiIade Iphia.
Mr.. ParnelI and Michael DavItt are said
to be actively engaged in the work of organ
izing a company with a capital OF $500. 600 TO
export Iiish linens and wooden goods
They have been promised support by friends
in this country.
When Jacob Schae lkopf, the millionaire
tanner of Buffalo, took bis wife around to
took at $500 600 residence which he re-
Gently bought her only criticism was that
sns was afraid if she lived there she would
have to keep girl"
Among the demands for laborers at
Castle Garden is one from Troy, asking for
a shoema lleT, who must be able 10 play the
piano. The employe is wanted to cObble
shoes in the cay, and entertain his employ
er's guests In the evening.
After being out all night the jury yestel-
day rendered a verdict against the "ennsyl-
wanna Railroad COMPANY, giving Mrs Maria
Bell, OF Lancaster, 50 600 damages for the
loss of her husband, who was killed on the
tracks Of that Company Dear Landisville.
The large frame barn Of W. B. Nell, i'm
mediateIy south of Mt. Pleasant, and one of
TIE finest buildings of the kind in West
moreland county was burned to the ground
on Saturday morning. destroying sixty tons
of hay and several hundred bushels of grain
Loss not stated insurance, s., 500.
An unknown man blindfolded with a
handkerchief. was found drowned at Wal
nut street wharf Philadelphia on Sunday
morning. He was about SO years Of age, 3
feet inches in height and weighed 40
pounds. He had dark hair and wore black
diagonal overcoat, with daI striped sack
suit.
ON Monday afternoon the last block of
marble required for the constru ction of the
new City Hall, Philadelphia, and its tower
was placed in position. The tower has now
reached a Eeiphth Of 337 feet four inches.
. Over the marble work there will be a super
/ structure. mainly of metal, about two hun
dred feel in heightn.
1t appears that besides Maud 5. there Is
another horse in the country for which the
sum OF 500, 900 has been offered. The great
Hindoo, now retired to the stud. is the horse,
and the enterprtsinG capitalists that tried to
get him are said to be Of New York. The
only bar to the SAFE was the condition,
insisted on by tba buyers. that he should
live four years more.
Passengers arriving on the Monterey
Arizona train report that great fires are
ranging on the summit OF the mountains in
many places on both SIDES OF the road.
Whether these fires have any connection
with the recent earthquake d istuTbauces in
Arizona and New Mexico i yet to be deter
mined, as the tops Of these noun taiGs are
almost inaccessible.
"A dispatch from Hazelton Pa. says: The
much talked of strike to take place through
out the auttracite mining regions gains
little c1edence in this section. While the
men claim that they shou Id receive the ad-
vance asked for. the n ore conservative among
them de precate a strike at this time, but a
NOR favorable condition may be seized upon
to carry the fight into effect.
The Roane Iron Company began opera
tiOns in Chattanooga. Tenn, on Monday
with its steel mill. It is the largest Besse-
Uer steel plant ever built in the South, the
investment representing 81 600 600. Itstarts
with a capacity of $50 tons OF steel per dav
and employs over 600 hands. Two Besse-
mer steel mills are now in operation at Chat
tanooPa, the only ones in the South.
e. Oliver, OF Beardslpv. Ind, jumped
from west-bound train of the Burlington
road at Iowa Point Nebraska, and was
drowned in the Missouri river. He was
frightened by two confidence men who were
working him. He ran to the platform drag.
giDg with him his 10-year old son. The
conductor grabbed the boy in time to save
him. Mr. Oliver was temporarily insane.
-Krupp has furnished a most gigantic
gun for the German government. It is 5215
feet long, weighs 315 600 pounds, 15s4 inch
bore, and discharges a projecte weighing
1852 pounds. The New Orleans States says
IN the possession Of such gun Germany
can rest assured that she is safe from any
attack from the United States Navy growing
out Of the question of admitting the Ameri
can hog"
Steve BrOdie, the bridge jumper, made
a swim on Saturday morning at Cincinnati
in BoyntOn suit Of 10 miles in the Ohio
down stream to the Suspension bridge. He
had a cooking stove, fire works and fire arms
as accomplishments and attracted attention.
On the way down he collided with a barge
and tore his suit, but kept on. Men in a
skiff followed close behind him. One of
these men fell overheard at the end of the
trip and was rescued by Brodie.
The corning mill of the Latin powder
company, situate on the mountain side just
above ittston, Pa, exploded from some
unknown cause at noon on Saturday.
There was over 200 pounds Of powder in
the mill at the time and the shock was ter
rife. 1t was plainly felt in Wi'kesbarre
and the cloud of smoke and rubbi- b., y hich
shot up 400 feet in the air. was sibl- ten
lies away. There was but one man
Joseph FTaze in the mill as the time, and
he was instantly killed.
"A short time since Mrs. Ruth Nesbit, a
resident Of South Strabane township, Wash
ington county, died, aged about so years.
She had made her home with her son In law,
Samuel Wilson, who was appointed as her
executor. Mr.. Wilson was aware that Mrs
Nesbit frequently received sums OF moCey
from various persons, and knowing her to
be of a secretive disposition he was sus-
picious that she had slowed the money away
about the premises. A few days since he
instituted a search in the garret and succeed
ed in finding MD away in hooks and crevices
gold, silver and greenbacks to the amount
of 81, 800.
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